I made mine into a quilted pillow/cushion cover. I just need to find an insert.

This is a great project to use up your solids (or in my case, some textured solids).

The finished mini quilt is 14 1/2″ x 22 1/2″. Using my Art Gallery Pure Elements, Laura Gunn Painters Canvas and Metallic Tussah from Robert Kaufman I made the nail polish in a plumb shade. I used Oval Elements for the backing and binding.

Using Aurifil 5015 40wt, 2600 50wt, 2024 50wt, 4030 50wt and 2630 50wt cotton thread I used a combination of freehand and digital quilting to give body to the cushion/pillow cover. The back is also quilted in 4030 50wt cotton.

The Fat Quarter Shop have kindly given me a $50 gift voucher to give to one lucky reader.

Think of all the beautiful solids you could purchase with $50.

To be in the draw for the gift voucher, just leave me a comment on this post telling me your favourite shade of nail polish.

Comments

Gorgeous quilting Jane, and I love the pop the metallics give! I'm rather partial to Tiffany Blue on my toes at the moment. Unfortunately fingers never seem to last very long for me so I rarely paint them. Maybe one day when I have a housekeeper, gardener, chef, nanny….

Love your cushion cover!! I don't paint my nails mainly because the polish wouldn't last while I work!! But! I admire the women who can wear nail polish and bright red is my favorite!! Thanks for the chance to win such a generous giveaway!!!

I never use just one color of nail polish at a time. I have two combos that are my favorite, at least right now they are my favorite, OPI Rainbow Connection (rainbow glitter) over OPI Black Onyx, and OPI Kiss Me on my Tulips with OPI Gone Gonzo (teal glitter) on top.

I am currently wearing the Thrill of Brazil by OPI on my toenails – it's a really bright red. Can't keep polish on my fingers for some reason, as a nurse I just wash my hands too much and do too many things that make it chip. Thanks for the awesome give away!

It changes all the time…once it was ladybugs (black and red), then a wine color, then a raisin, then pink…now french tips with clear! ha ha… my one other vice (first is fabric!) Thanks for the giveaway chance!

this is such a cute mini. ohhh what a fabulous give a way. I am not colorful when it comes to my nails. I use clear all the time. I have short stubby nails that will not grow long. So I don't accent them, LOL quilting dash lady at Comcast dot net

I just downloaded this pattern a few hours ago! I think it's replaced what I was going to do at this week's Sew-cial. I like wild colors occasionally but I always come back to a coral shade. More pink than orange. Thanks for the chance to win.

What a cute quilt! I like cherry red polish. My four-year-old granddaughter loves having her fingers and toes painted, so that is a ritual of ours every time that she visits. Thanks for the great chance to win, and thanks for your inspiring blog. I love the bed runner with the pocket. I'm going to make one for my granddaughter.

This project is cute! I've been painting my nails since I was in jr high pretty regularly. Go to is any shade of pink but I've tried all colors at this point and use whatever suits my mood or the season. Thanks kristikay@spratt.net

Love this quilt, it's so cute and trendy. I don't use fingernail polish any more because of allergies to chemicals. If I could, coral is my favorite color right now. You did an excellent job picking the colors and quilting it. cdahlgren at live dot come

This summer I have been wearing metallic polish in gold and lavender. I only do my toes, so it makes them shiny, but light. Doing the mini quilt as a cushion cover is great. How about buying an inexpensive bed pillow and sewing in the sides a little. They usually have too much fabric for the fluff anyway. Thanks for the chance to win.

My favourite colour nail polish is called 'Chiffon Haze'. It is a pearlescent pink and each time I look down at my toes I can't help but think how pretty they are. My mini quilt will be pink with a streak of silver.

Cute! I usually only use nail polish on my toes and like darker shades of red. I recently tried a limey green, but they ended up looking as though they had some sort of fungus issue! Very unattractive. That bottle of nail polish is now relegated to craft use only!

Hi Jane! This is so cute quilt! I can't choose my favourite colour … now I'm hooked with one Greek nail polish "Korres' which last for ever. We find them from Farmacy and anytime I need something from there I need to buy NEW colour for my collection. Last one was strong pink! 'Blueberry' is also my favourite! Thank you for a great give away! x Tejenerospost(at)gmail(dot)com

I love your very sweet mini quilt – My Favourite nail polish for my toes is: Rouge Tango (shade 58) by Bourjois.toe nails, but clear varnish only for my fingernails, anything else would chip after a couple of days and who has time to paint nails when there are so many gorgeous quilts to be made?;-p

Our mini is so cute and I love the idea to turn it into a pillow.I'm not much of a nail polish girl I'm almost always choose a nude tone for my finger nails. But I love to color my toe nails and there can't be enough color for me – blue, pink, red and many more:-)

I paint my toes a lot during the summer, since sitting at the market spinning encourages a lot of people to stare at them, but i don't think I have a favorite color for them. So far I've this year I've used sparkly purple, blue, silver, and now I'm on a deep purple. So many colors, so few weeks to wear them!

I have just discovered Crabtree and Evelyn's "Peaches and Cream" and I love it. It is a wonderful summer color and it will make a beautiful mini wall hanging with the soft pink bottle and black cap. Thanks for this opportunity, I love shopping at the "Fat Quarter Shop"!

Since I have short, always cracking and breaking nails, I use the clear polish, so I don't call attention to them, which is totally opposite of my personality and color choices for quilts. There, I tend to go with bright, happy colors. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.lv2bquilting2@comcast.net

I love me a good wine colour!! I have a great insta-dry that I use all the time!! 5 min to an instant manicure! (And then off as quick as it went on! I do way to much with my hands to keep them polished!!)

Honestly, this is the first time a mini quilt has made any sense to me. OMG I LOVE IT. I need to make it and turn it into a cushion.

I once lined up all of my blue nail polishes and found that I have over 5 feet of bottles of blue nail polish. So I think my answer must be clear: blue. Specifically, it's Bermuda Breakaway, a China Glaze blue nail polish from, like, 2008 that I have carefully carefully rationed.